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The word "miniature" was originally associated with the creation of small images and portraits. Tiny, often expensive likenesses—requiring a highly trained artist with good eyesight and a steady ...

A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures less than 15 inches tall and about 5 inches wide. Raphael painted the portrait of ...

Amalia Küssner was born in small-town Indiana, daughter of immigrants, but rose to the heights of the Gilded Age international elite as a celebrated miniaturist artist prized for her dainty and ...

At first they look like regular paintings - beautiful, and bursting with talent – but regular nonetheless. And then, it strikes you that these photographic images are barely larger than your thumbnail ...

At the Spokane, Washington, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in July 2007, a woman named Martha came in with a little treasure, a miniature portrait done with watercolors on ivory. A little larger than a wallet ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. IN THIS AGE, an exquisite handpainted portrait is an uncommon luxury. Which is why Somerville-based artist Kelly Carmody ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...